This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Charlotte Jane
Secure video streaming is an internet video streaming service that puts privacy and security first. Secure streaming has a lot of connotations, and there are a lot of ways to approach it.
For some, security streaming may be as simple as encrypting their stream with a password to keep undesirable viewers out. For others, safe video streaming may be a little more complicated, requiring cutting-edge encryptions and more stringent security standards.
Top 7 Security Features for Video Delivery
There are features explicitly intended to assist secure video streaming. For hosting safe live broadcasts and on-demand video libraries, these security measures are available.
Let's look at some of the most important things to consider when comparing video hosting providers for secure video streaming.
1. Password Protection
Password protection is one of the most basic ways of video security. This option allows you to set a password that prevents others from viewing your video material. Your stream will be safe as long as you can keep your password private.
This strategy is useful for passing around a film secretly before distributing it publicly within a small business or group.
If you're considering employing password-protected streaming, keep in mind that it's not completely secure. Passwords are easily shared among friends and colleagues, as well as in online forums.
Change your video passwords every couple of months to keep things secure, and search Google for leaked passwords on a regular basis. Simply type "password for [VIDEO NAME] + [YOUR BRAND]" into Google, and any forums with your leaked password should appear.
2. Restrictions based on location and domain
Broadcasters can apply two different sorts of audience limitations to protect online video.
A domain restriction is the first. This feature, as the name implies, limits the domains on which your stream can be seen. When you enable this option, you must enter the URLs of the websites where you want your films to play.
Any attempt to embed your video on another website once it has been set up will fail. This helps to fight piracy by preventing others from putting your video player on their website.
Geographic restrictions are the second sort of constraint. IP addresses are used in this way to whitelist specific countries. You pick which nations can access your films in a similar way to the approach described above. Users outside of these countries will be unable to see.
If you're providing a very specialised audience in a very specific location, geo-restrictions are ideal.
This procedure is extremely precise and adds an extra degree of security.
3. Paywalls that are secure
Payment security is crucial if you want to monetize your online movies and live streaming. Mixed-content warnings may cause you to lose a lot of clients if you don't have adequate payment security safeguards in place. In the worst-case situation, you could face negative publicity or even legal action as a result of your failure to protect client data.
Flicknexs employs a player-to-player payment system. To safeguard payment information from unauthorised actors, this method is entirely HTTPS and employs bank-grade SSL encryption.
Flicknexs also prohibits the sharing of login credentials in order to circumvent the video paywall. Users who have purchased video or live video streaming access are only allowed to log in on one device at a time. The original stream will be shut down if another login is discovered via another device.
4. Token Security System with Dynamic Tokens
Tokenised video transmission is an advanced method for ensuring video security. This security feature is handy for embedding video material into a website or app.
In a dynamic tokenised security system, the video player requests a new token every two minutes from the server. Domain limits, geographic restrictions, and other security measures are all regularly verified and cross-checked as a result of this. The video playback will immediately fail if improper tokens or no tokens are available.
This method is absolutely transparent to the user, but it adds an additional degree of security to your material that is difficult to circumvent.
5. Monitoring of the System
Select a video-on-demand service that offers system monitoring. This will aid in the detection of any security concerns or red flags.
Both automated and human-managed security scans, inspections, and checks keep an eye on the Flicknexs video streaming solution. Video content storage, for example, necessitates SSH public-key authentication. Every day, security managers check the system's integrity and access.
6. Video Delivery through HTTPS
HTTPS is an encrypted web communication protocol that is widely used by government agencies, banks, and other businesses with sensitive data. Security is provided by this protocol in three ways.
First, it protects the video file from alteration while it is in transit. Encrypted data cannot be modified while travelling over the internet without totally destroying the data.
Second, HTTPS encrypts data and enables authentication. You can almost always be certain that data sent over HTTPS connections came from the source you believe it did.
Finally, HTTPS safeguards against eavesdropping when used in conjunction with HLS delivery. Only the intended receiver should be able to access the data being delivered if everything is done correctly.
7. HLS (High-Level Security) Video Encryption
HTTP live streaming is abbreviated as HLS. While there are various encryption methods available, AES-128 is the most widely utilised approach for HLS encryption. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a 128-bit block cypher that encrypts and decrypts data. Here's a quick rundown of how AES-128 works.
Broadcasters can add AES video encryption to a stream for security purposes in video streaming. A unique key scrambles the video content when it is encrypted. The video cannot be seen unless the viewer has the relevant access key. Furthermore, if they attempt to intercept it, all they will find is a jumbled mess of meaningless information.
Authorised viewers can access AES-encrypted video via their web browser with a secure HTTPS connection at the same time. The encryption process is undetectable, but it adds a degree of security against interception and piracy.
To Sum it Up:
Customisation possibilities for a secure HTML5 online video player are more complicated than ever before, as this article demonstrates. Secure video streaming is essential in a world where threats and attack vectors are continually developing. It's critical to evaluate your objectives and select the most appropriate security measures for your streaming requirements.
You may rely on the security safeguards provided by a professional-grade video hosting platform, such as Flicknexs, to protect your content.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Charlotte Jane
Charlotte Jane | Sciencx (2021-11-03T09:41:48+00:00) Top 7 Security Standards For Your Video Streaming Business. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/11/03/top-7-security-standards-for-your-video-streaming-business/
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